July 13, 2008

I put together a one-sheet summary of Issaquah bus routes to give to people trying to make sense of them. If you’d like to print a copy you can download (or view) it in PDF format. Or continue reading to see the contents in HTML for viewing here.

NOTICE: The times and stop locations shown here are very approximate! Use this guide to help pick
your bus then check the detailed schedule or ask the driver before you ride.

Getting around Issaquah

For getting around Issaquah

Metro Route 200

Runs Mon-Fri about every half hour from 6am-6pm. Takes 32 minutes end to end.

Free!

Visits most of Issaquah’s shopping areas with stops at the Community Center, Issaquah High School, along Front Street, Gilman Blvd, Target, Issaquah Transit Center, the Meadows, Lowe’s, Costco, King County Court House, Microsoft, and Fred Meyer.

For getting around Issaquah and Sammamish

Metro Route 927

Runs Mon-Sat about hourly from 6:30am-5:30pm. Takes 50 minutes end to end.

$1.75 adults ($1.50 off-peak), $.75 youth (6-17), $.50 seniors (65+)

Starts at 2nd Ave NE and Alder St. Stops on Sunset, Newport Way, Issaquah Transit Center, Klahanie, and S Samm P&R. Alternating routes serve Providence Point and the intersection of 228th Ave NE and NE 8th St. Check where it’s going before you ride!

Getting from Issaquah to elsewhere (and back!)

To Seattle (via Eastgate P&R and Mercer Island P&R)

Sound Transit Route 554

Runs 7 days about every half hour during the day and hourly in the late evening. The switch to hourly is earlier on the weekends. Takes 45 minutes end to end.

$2.50 for adults, $1.75 for youth (6-18) and $1.25 for seniors (65+)

Stops at the Highlands P&R, the west corner of the Issaquah Library Parking Garage on Sunset Way, and the Issaquah Transit Center.

To Preston, Fall City, Snoqualmie, and North Bend

Metro Route 209

Runs Mon-Sat about hourly from 7am-3pm with a couple of later runs. Takes 50 minutes end to end.

This quick glimpse of Issaquah bus service was produced as a public service by Getting Around Issaquah Together (GAIT). Our mission is to promote and enable walking, bicycling, and bus riding as practical and fun ways of getting around Issaquah. You can find out more or join our mailing list on our website.
If you have feedback on this flyer, please email gait@gettingaroundissaquah.org.
Neither Sound Transit nor King County Metro contributed directly to this quick reference.

2 Comments

1. Rory

Jeff,
thanks for publishing this. another option for people to find out more information on where bus stop locations are and time tables are with the Google Earth application. It has a setting for a bus route layer that you can toggle on, which also links to the transit agency’s website.
Rory

I’m not sure where to post this so I am going to post it here. I have been seeing a lot of chatter lately about getting a bus up on to Squak Mountain. I think this poses several problems and I’m not sure people are thinking it through. 1. The additional noise may be no big deal for those people who live off of the main road, but for the many, many homes that are right on the big loop this poses a major noise problem. This would be more than doubling the noise problem that exists already. It is bad enough that there are only 2 ways to get on and off of squak mountain, but add to that buses coming up and down the large hills at all times of the day and night and you are creating a large traffic and noise pollution problem.
2. The home prices for those who live on the main road will take a significant hit. I don’t know about everyone else, but I moved to Squak to get away from the noise of the city. Now a small vocal minority is saying they want to bring that noise right into our neighborhood! Why did we even build that fancy new bus station down there if the bus is going to go to every neighborhood directly? Isn’t that the point of a park n ride? To go park your car and ride the bus?

If we move forward with proposing a bus to squak mountain we are going to be solving a problem that only a small portion of the population have. I have a car, all of my neighbors have a car. It’s easy for me to drive my car to the fancy new P&R and ride my bike or take the bus.

If you want to live without a car move to the urban areas! These are the areas that were designed for people to live without cars. Suburban areas were created because people had cars and could drive away from the city.

I’m not sure how many of the GAIT’rs are homeowners but you have to be especially concerned with home values during these tumultous times. My house has already lost 15% of its value in 2 years. Would you like to add another 10-15% of that by adding the noise/traffic/pollution of diesel buses to the neighborhood?

I am going to organize a group to fight this movement or to tie it to a new road built from highway 900 to squak, which will basically never happen. Squak is already a mess with traffic and construction trucks, and it’s nearly impossible to walk anywhere. Now let’s add a bunch of large vehicles to the mix to make it worse.

Why don’t we all band together and lobby to get sidewalks put throughout Squak? That is a safe and sane movement I can get behind.
Justin Fay
206-300-6978